Immigration Activists Chain Themselves to California Governor’s Mansion

Newsweek and the Associated Press report that protesters yesterday chained themselves to the gate of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Fair Oaks “suburban mansion” to demand the release of immigrants in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Under the banner of the “California Liberation Collective,” protesters made their way to the Governor’s mansion  in the morning.  Some participants later chained themselves to the gate.

Protesters apparently wanted the release of immigrants in prisons and immigrant detention facilities and demand the Governor “use his power, including mass clemency and emergency release, to free people in state prisons.”  They also demand that the California governor “stop transfers from state and local custody to ICE and between California prisons” and “stop the expansion of immigration detention in California.”  Finally, demonstrators want to see Newsom’s government doing more to “hold the detention industry accountable.”

KJ